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		kyrra on Oct 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths WSJ has a commentary piece in today's paper that is similar but also important. The jist I get out of it is that science is ever evolving and there is no "trust the science", as it just gives us data and is not an absolute truth. Science can provide varying levels of certainty on given part of a subject, but running around and invoking science for policy decisions is a bad plan when there isn't solid data backing it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/partisan-science-antiscience-fa... Mirror: https://archive.is/GwRw1

shockeychap on Oct 12, 2021 [–]

"One had better be scrupulously honest before asking people to surrender their own judgment and simply believe what they are told."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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